placenamesBallyrashane
Lewis recorded geological variety and stone-built chambers across the wider parish.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Ballyrashane · English · main form
Place & story
Stone in several forms
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account describes Ballyrashane as a parish crossing the Antrim–Derry boundary, chiefly on the Derry side. He recorded extensive basalt extraction and noted varieties with different forms, accompanied by chalcedony, opal and zeolite. This is evidence for stone working and geological observation across the historic parish, rather than a precise location for a particular quarry. [2]
The chambers at Ballyvarten
Lewis also listed artificial underground chambers at Ballyvarten, Island Effrick and Ballynock. At Ballyvarten he described four rooms or cells, with rough stone walls and roofs formed from large flat stones. His account supplies neither a construction date nor an established function for these chambers. Their inclusion should not be taken as evidence that the sites remain accessible or unchanged. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballyrashane. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballyrashane, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-08-26. How this page was prepared.